Purchase this volume Edited from Oxford, Jesus College, MS 39. Edited by E.A. Jones E.A. Jones (ed.) The fifteenth-century English compilation Disce Mori begins as an almost archetypal manual of religious instruction in the tradition of the Somme Le roi/Miroir du monde. However, in its concluding part, or ‘Exhortacion’, it turns to the more specific concerns of its female dedicatee… Read More »Vol. 36 The ‘Exhortacion’ from ‘Disce Mori’
Purchase this volume An Edition Based on British Library MS Cotton Tiberius D. VII. Ronald Waldron (ed.) This volume is the first step in the publication of a new edition of John Trevisa’s English translation of Higden’s universal history, Polychronicon, to replace the Rolls Series edition of 1865-86. It is based on British Library MS Cotton Tiberius D.vii, a copy… Read More »Vol. 35 John Trevisa’s Translation of the ‘Polychronicon’ of Ranulph Higden, Book VI
Purchase this volume Edited from Glasgow University Library, Hunter 250. Edited by Thomas G. Duncan and Margaret Connolly with a parallel Text of The Anglo-Norman Miroir edited from Nottingham University Library, MS LM 4 Thomas G. Duncan, Margaret Connolly (eds.) The ME Mirror, a fourteenth-century prose translation of the thirteenth-century AN Miroir by Robert de Gretham, is a text of… Read More »Vol. 34 The Middle English ‘Mirror’: Sermons from Advent to Sexagesima
Purchase this volume The four Middle English sermons from British Library, MS Harley 2268, for the occasions of the Annunciation/Passion Sunday, the Feast of St Mary Magdalene, a Procession, and a Dedication of an Altar to St Anne are edited here for the first time. Veronica O’Mara (ed.) They form an integrated group, sharing a consistency in content, a similarity… Read More »Vol. 33 Four Middle English Sermons
Purchase this volume Edited by Una O’Farrel-Tate The ‘Abridged English Metrical Brut’ is a verse history of the king of Britain which exists in seven manuscripts and fragments. One version was edited in 1935 as ‘An Anonymous Short English Metrical Chronicle’, but the closest literary relations of this text are found in the ‘Brut’ tradition. The Royal manuscript contains a… Read More »Vol. 32 The Abridged English Metrical Brut
Purchase this volume Frank Schaer (ed.) The most comprehensive medieval account of the Three Kings was John of Hildesheim’s Historia Trium Regum (1364-75), a widely diffused text which was translated into several vernaculars. The most popular English version has for some time been accessible in a number of abridged redactions. In contrast, the present edition prints an independent and hitherto… Read More »Vol. 31 The Three Kings of Cologne
Purchase this volume A parallel-text edition. Celia Millward (ed.) La Estorie del Evangelie is a metrical life of Christ based on the gospels, probably first composed in Norfolk in the late thirteenth century. Despite the French title no source in French has been identified, and the poem is likely to be an original English work. It was apparently popular, as… Read More »Vol. 30 La Estorie del Evangelie
Purchase this volume Klaus Bitterling (ed.) Edited from the Unique Manuscript, Cambridge, ST. John’s College MS G. 30 (1998) The importance of the original text in the history of devotional literature need not be stressed. The present edition includes information on the Manuel, its background, content and influence, and a study of the language of the Middle English manuscript and the… Read More »Vol. 29 Of Shrifte and Penance: The Middle English Prose Translation of Le Manuel des Péchés
Purchase this volume Sarah McNamer (ed.) Edition from Cambridge University library MS Hh.i.11 and Wynkyn de Worde’s Printed Text of 1493 (1995) The Revelations of Elizabeth of Hungary circulated during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, in Latin, French, Italian, Spanish and Catalan versions, as well as two independent Middle English translations edited here. The text is in many ways a distinctively… Read More »Vol. 28 The Two Middle English Translations of the Revelations of St. Elizabeth of Hungary
Purchase this volume Edited from Richard Pynson’s printed editions of 1516. (1994) Manfred Görlach (ed.) The Kalendre is a collection of epitomes of lives of 167 British saints drawn from John Capgrave’s Latin Nova Legenda Anglie (which had been printed by Wynkyn de Worde also in 1516). The Kalendre was intended to cater for the ‘unlettered’ by providing them with… Read More »Vol. 27 The Kalendre of the Newe Legende of Englande